If you'd told me twenty years ago that I'd one day make a map of Mars compiled from images taken from my own back garden, I wouldn...

"Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want." - David H. Levy I must admit, when I first hea...

Siril ( https://www.siril.org/ ) is a (relatively) new freeware program for stacking and processing astronomical images. I've been using...

A very wet (and unseasonably cold) autumn put a bit of a dampener on 2019, but otherwise it was another good year for photos, with a few sur...

What's the most distant object you can see with the naked eye? Unless you live near a dark-sky site (and have exceptional eyesight) the...

Ask someone to draw you a galaxy and chances are they'll come back with a spiral shape. Even a small telescope will show you plenty of g...

When I first heard about a Pied Crow being sighted in East Kent I assumed it was some kind of birders' in-joke. After all, what is a ...